Saint Michael, Guardian Angel, and Holy Family Protection Novena Bracelets

July 17, 2026 - Donna-Marie Cooper O'Boyle

THREE brand new designs! You might already know that I am a Catholic jewelry designer. I design and craft by hand (and with love and prayer!) many inspiring tangible signs of our FAITH. I have several Novena bracelet designs which are sold by the EWTN Religious Catalogue.

My signature bracelet is a NOVENA of prayer bracelet, consisting of nine major beads to symbolize a Novena of prayer. You can read more about that here on my “Bracelet Shop” page to learn about the inspiration for this bracelet.

Today, I am presenting three new NOVENA bracelets! You’ll see just two photos below. However, switching out the medals gives the three designs (with two choices of beads). The three new designs are: my St. Michael Protection Novena Bracelet, my Guardian Angel Protection Novena Bracelet, and my new Holy Family Protection Novena Bracelet.

The first Novena Bracelet (with white pearl-like beads) is shown below with a Guardian Angel medal. However, instead of the Guardian Angel medal, you can choose one of the St. Michael medals shown with the bracelet. I will attach it to your bracelet instead of the Guardian Angel medal. Or, you may choose to have a Holy Family medal instead as is shown in the second photo below. You will see the specific payment buttons below.

Each silver heart locket (on all three choices of the bracelets) contains Blessed Salt (a sacramental of our Church). Of course, we should not buy or sell sacramentals. Otherwise, the blessing would no longer be valid. The fully exorcised Blessed Salt contained in the heart locket is my gift to you! In this way, it retains its blessing!

The bracelet will arrive to you in a gift box or gift bag, along with a prayer card. I always recommend that you have the Novena bracelet blessed by a priest or a deacon after receiving it. It then becomes a blessed sacramental!

To purchase, see choices here below:

Purchase the St. Michael Protection Novena Bracelet with the ST. MICHAEL medal (ON LEFT IN PHOTO) using the button below. $39.95 plus shipping:

Purchase St. Michael Protection Novena Bracelet with the SCALLOPED St. Michael medal (ON RIGHT IN PHOTO) using the button below. $39.95 plus shipping:

Purchase St. Michael Protection Novena Bracelet with the GUARDIAN ANGEL medal using the button below. $39.95 plus shipping:

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Purchase St. Michael WHITE PEARL Protection Novena Bracelet with the HOLY FAMILY medal using the button below. $39.95 plus shipping:

The second Novena Bracelet (with crystal colored beads) is shown above with a Holy Family medal. However, instead of the Holy Family medal, you can choose one of the St. Michael medals shown with the bracelet. Or, you may choose a Guardian Angel medal (which you can see in the first photo above). I will attach it to your bracelet instead of the Holy Family medal (shown in the photo above).

To purchase, see choices here below:

Purchase the St. Michael Protection Novena Bracelet (CRYSTAL) with the ST. MICHAEL medal using the button below. $39.95 plus shipping:

Purchase St. Michael CRYSTAL Protection Novena Bracelet (crystal) with the SCALLOPED St. Michael medal using the button below. $39.95 plus shipping:

Purchase St. Michael CRYSTAL Protection Novena Bracelet with the GUARDIAN ANGEL medal using the button below. $39.95 plus shipping:

Purchase St. Michael CRYSTAL Protection Novena Bracelet with the HOLY FAMILY medal using the button below. $39.95 plus shipping:

I didn’t know who would open the card …

December 23, 2023 - Donna-Marie Cooper O'Boyle

I don’t always think to put a Christmas card out for our mail carrier. After all, we have several carriers and also substitutes. How would I know to whom it would or should go? How many are needed? How would I address it?

Add to that, I wondered if the card would get lost in the shuffle and dropped into the post office mailbox by mistake. I had placed a bunch of Christmas cards in my mailbox to be mailed one day. On the top of that pile, I had placed the one without the postage stamp.

Well, I have a little story to share with you just a few days before Christmas. I’ll leave the gift wrapping and cleaning on hold for a few minutes so that I can tell you.

Yesterday, a mail truck pulled up in my driveway to deliver a heavy package. It was filled with the extra books I had sent back from Texas. You see, I was recently in San Antonio, Texas to present on Mary and the Eucharist. Any books that are left over from my book signing, I send back home.

The friendly and energetic young man came to my door. I greeted him and asked if there was another box as well. I had shipped two from Texas.

“No, just this one,” he said.

Then he added, “By the way, do you know my godparents, ‘so and so’?”

“Yes! I do? What made you think I’d know them?” I was a bit puzzled because they live about an hour’s distance away.

“Well, they told me that you were going to speak in ‘such and such place’ awhile back and I told them I thought that you were on my mail route!”

“Wow!” I think I said to him after learning this interesting “coincidence.” Suddenly a thought popped into my head. Did he find the card in our mailbox awhile back or someone else? Should I ask him? Maybe not, because he might not have been the one.

Before I could ask though, he said, “Thank you for the Christmas card and note, by the way.”

Ahh! I thought. He was the one that got the card. It didn’t get lost after all.

I had left a Christmas card addressed to “Our Mail Carrier” for whomever was going to find it. I included a monetary tip and a holy card. Even though the Christmas card I wrote out to him wouldn’t be “religious” (so as not to offend anyone), it did mention “Christmas.” And I couldn’t help but include a holy card, hoping it could be inspiring to whomever saw it. You never know … it could be just the message someone needs at this time of year.

Well, it gets even better. And that is why I have to pause from the “million” things I need to do today before Mass tonight so that I can share with you.

As you can see, this is not the one I wrote to him. But just showing you which card it was.

Our mail carrier made mention again about the card. He said he had been away from church for a while now and he knows he needs to get back. He said the holy card touched his heart.

AND, he happened to open my Christmas card in front of his Mother and her eyes caught sight of the holy card. She said, “You see!!!” She had been asking him to get back to church.

As you can imagine, my heart was rejoicing — so very happy that my little gesture of love could touch someone’s heart and that it meant something profound to him. He then told me he’d like to talk with me more.

I ran inside to get my business card to give to him so that he could get in touch. He then reminded me, “Well, I’ll see you again! I still have to deliver that second package!”

I didn’t want to delay him. No doubt, he had a busy day of deliveries ahead of him. We bid good bye and “Merry Christmas!” to one another.

As he headed to his mail truck, I couldn’t help myself. I shouted, “Listen to your Mother!”

He knew what I meant. He chuckled and he said, “Yes, Mothers always know what is best!”

Remember, dear Reader, your little acts of love go a very long way with God’s grace!

Merry (almost!) Christmas!

Discussing Advent with Deacon Harold

November 4, 2021 - Donna-Marie Cooper O'Boyle

I was blessed to sit down with Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers through the airwaves on his show “Walk by Faith Wednesday Webinars with Deacon Harold” to discuss the very holy season of Advent. Since Advent is just 3 weeks away, it’s wise to begin to think about our plans and put them into place to make a holy Advent journey. I hope you like our discussion and I encourage you to share this blog post with your friends and family members who might be interested.

Feast of the Holy Family

December 28, 2014 - Donna-Marie Cooper O'Boyle

“The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family…The family is placed at the center of the great struggle between good and evil, between life and death, between love and all that is opposed to love. To the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of good, the source of which is found in Christ the Redeemer o man. Every family unit needs to make these forces their own so that, to use a phrase spoken on the occasion of the Millennium of Christianity in Poland, the family will be strong with the strength of God.” ~Saint John Paul II